Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, right, of Massachusetts will be visiting the Iowa State Fair today. He's seen here in a July photo with his wife, Gail Huff, a native Iowan.

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Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is traveling to Iowa today to check out the Big Boar and the Super Bull at the Iowa State Fair - and to size up whether Iowans might take a liking to him.

"I'm going to be coming out more often to try to determine whether there's an interest in my brand of leadership and Republicanism," Brown told The Des Moines Register in a telephone interview Saturday.

Brown, 53, is also coming to see family - his wife, Gail Huff, a TV reporter, was born in Iowa and still has relatives in the Winterset area, he said. ...